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13 Everyday Items You Could Use For Survival

These days, it is crucial to be conscious of everyday items for survival to be prepared for any possible situation. Whether it be a prolonged power outage, natural disaster, or even the apocalypse, your supplies would eventually run out. It is important to have some survival kit and gear on hand. Given this, those who are more inclined to find creative ways of using simple objects for a specific survival situation are more likely to make it through the rough.

Everyday Items For Survival: Your Life Depends On It

1. Coffee Filters

Coffee filters aren’t just for making your daily cup of Joe. In fact, you can get even more out of it by using it as a plate or bowl that are lightweight and easy to dispose. These can definitely come in handy while trying to get a meal while on the go. Other alternative uses for coffee filters include the following:

2. Tabs

Don’t be so quick to throw away those soda tabs. These can actually be quite handy. For example, if you happen to run out of fishing hooks while fishing, you can twist and cut these tabs up to create a hook. When doing this, use pliers and protective gloves to prevent the makeshift hook from cutting your skin.

3. Drinking Straws

Plastic drinking straws can provide a quick method for sealing and packaging. For example, you can stuff a straw with petroleum jelly soaked-cotton and burning both ends to create an airtight container to create small torches. The following are other useful suggestions to seal in your plastic drinking straws:

Spices

Ointments

Medicine

Liquids

Survival fishing kit

4. Glass Bottles

A glass bottle is definitely useful for transporting water or other dry powders. If you break up these bottles, the glass shards can become knives, arrowheads, scrapers, and other weapons after some shaping down. Given this, glass bottles can be one of the most important survival items.

5. Wax

Wax isn’t just for candles but can also be great for making objects more water resistant. To do this, you can simply rub a thin layer of wax to completely coat the object. Additionally, wax can be a useful lubricant and means to combat rust on essential tools made of metal.

There is a variety of different uses for male and female hygiene products such as condoms and tampons. And these uses go far beyond what these products are usually for. For instance, condoms can become tourniquets for first aid, part of a slingshot, or a water container. On the other hand, tampons can also be useful in wound dressing as well as in filtering water and starting fires in the wilderness.

7. Dental Floss

Dental floss comes in small compact packaging that makes them very easy to bring around. Aside from helping maintain your oral hygiene, a floss can be an essential survival item for securing your gear and creating a trap and tripwire among many other things.

8. Duct Tape

A duct tape is another great tool to secure objects. However, with this tape, there are limitless uses and possibilities. For example, it can be used to create survival arrow spines. Additionally, duct tape can be useful when it comes to building and mending an emergency shelter and survival tools.

9. Egg Cartons

After you’ve exhausted your egg supply, don’t throw your cartons away. These cardboard trays can be useful when it comes to maintaining a garden. Not only would your egg carton garden be affordable and easy, it would also be much more space efficient and easy to transport. Simply plant your little seedlings in the small pits where the eggs used to be and watch your tiny plants grow.

10. Bandana

A bandana is one of those household items to keep on your person in an emergency situation. These strips of cloth also have multiple uses that can really make a difference for your survival. These are used in making smoke signals. a makeshift bandage, or a holder of edible plants. Should you need it, you can also create a makeshift slingshot with a bandana. Additionally, colorful bandanas are great for making yourself more visible to your companions in the thick of the jungle.

11. Tin Cans

If you cut up a tin can just right, you can turn it into a mini stove. These stoves help cook food faster despite the wind. Definitely, a makeshift stove is key when it comes to speeding up lunchtimes to keep the team moving. And they can also be useful in wilderness survival for getting some heat in when you’re settled for the night.

Having a pair of pantyhose on hand is great for water purification, food dehydration, and also keeping the bugs and mosquitoes away at night. And what’s also great about this makeshift tool is how it is so light, small, and easy to carry. You even have the option to wear it if you don’t feel like stuffing it into your bag.

13. Chapstick

We know that dry lips would be the least of your problems while trying to survive. However, having some lip balm with you can actually be one of the best things you could do to improve your chances. Given its waxy composition, these little sticks are a great emergency source of fuel. It is also quite helpful that it comes in a very light and compact packaging which makes it easier to carry around in your backpack

For more household item survival hacks, watch this Survival Life video.

We hope you find these everyday items for survival tips to be useful should you find yourself caught up in a struggle for survival. However, you can definitely learn more about the different uses of ordinary items through a simple web search. But this short list is definitely a great start if you’re in a rush to secure a useful emergency survival pack.

Do you have any other everyday items for survival you have used in the past? Please let us know in the comments section below!

The tine can stove was great but required extensive work so instead take an old fashioned v tipped can opener and put three holes near the botton on the side of the can (this allows for the smoke to go out. The cut a door hole on the side of the can to slip your buddy burner through. light your buddy burner place in tine can (with top removed) and you are ready to cook breakfast. Really great for bacon and eggs. Use to do this at camp in the summer time (Girl Scouts). To make a buddy burner, take a tuna can, cut cooregated cardboard into strips no wider that the can, in a spiral put the cardboard in the can and then fill with was (I use my old candles that are no longer good as candles. For an oven, take three shinny cookie sheets bolt together in a V shape with one in the middle to hold lets say a cake pan. Sit this in front of a bon fire. Cakes are especially good cooked this way however, you can do meat, potatoes, actually anything that you would normally cook in an oven. Happy camping.

Okay.. I’m curious…just how many condoms will it take to keep an avg. size adult afloat??? I can see the bobber thing, even the slingshot is do-able.. tourniquet.. that might be a stretch..no pun intended!!

A Condom can be put into a pillow case and filled with water until it fills the pillow case. Old college boy trick. Makes for a laugh and a wet bed. If filled with air, not to that extreme, a couple should do fine and be durable if enclosed in a shirt or other protective covering. When stretched that thin, even the best of condoms are fragile.

I’m with Old Soldier on this one. When I was a young soldier I was once forced into a stupid research study on troop survival, (by some idiot General who’s nephew was trying to get a doctorate) and instructed to use the various methods that could be employed. To be told by some ‘nigel’ who had never spent a day in the Australian bush in his life what and how to keep alive was “interesting” to say the least. Anyone who tells you a condom can be used to carry water has never done it – you just cant keep them protected enough and they burst.

For fire-starting, let’s not forget the easiest, most reliable tool available — the disposable cigarette lighter, such as Bic. The cheap foreign clones are seldom worth bothering with & often fail after a dozen or so lights, whereas a Bic (and probably other “big-name brands like Ronson) is good for over a thousand lights, based on my days as a heavy smoker. For a buck apiece, less in quantity, that’s hard to beat. And the shelf life seems to be YEARS, just sitting in a drawer. I have about a hundred or so stockpiled in my Prep closet. They should also be useful as trade goods.

I also stockpile lots of tinder, usually in small Zip-lok bags for ease of carry. In my closet I store the tinder bags & other flammable items (like Vaseline fire-starters) into large metal cookie or fruitcake tins, for safety (and ease of stacking & moving around). I suspect that Crisco might work as a substitute for Vaseline on cotton balls, though I haven’t tried it yet. Should be a lot cheaper than Vaseline, if it works.

That little blip about panty hose. Guys, don’t be so self conscious about YOU wearing them! They are great for another layer in very cold weather. If you are in a survival situation, the homophobic tendencies have to be put on the back burner in favor of staying warmer. You wouldn’t think that thin little layer would do much in the heat retention department, and by itself, it won’t. But under your other clothes, it helps more than you think it would. It is one more layer in the way during a 10-100 break, but you can modify your own as you see fit. Can’t say it wil help if you wanna use em later as a water filter, but in a pinch, grit you teeth and strain out the bigger chunks with the fabric. Just don’t use the part from your feet or your butt, and don’t think about it. Biggest trick is finding a pair big enough for a big guy. Sometimes “queen size” just ain’t gonna get it done.

I’m with Jeff. Panty hose or tights make lighter,better,cheaper longjohns. Dryer lint,paraffin & pinecones make great firestarter. Tampons & feminine pads are great for bandages & a myriad of other uses.

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